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Don't try this at home.; Yikes
Topic Started: Jan 20 2007, 12:12 AM (1,228 Views)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n79wBw_LJ9Y...related&search=

not working.
look at Gable thread in college.
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Back in the day of no limit for heavyweight....seen the poster of that throw like everywhere
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match this
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That's pretty wild. Anyone know what the weights were on the both of them????
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Very popular poster. Was up on a wall in our house.

Copied this:
"The Greatest Throw of All Time! 230lb. Wilfried Dietrich Thowing 440lb. Chris Taylor in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich."

He died at the age of 29 in 1979.

Most Falls, Tournament (Pinned All Opponents)
5 in 13:52--Chris Taylor, hwt, Iowa State, 1973.

Most Falls, Season
44 Chris Taylor, hwt, Iowa State, 1973.

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A gentle giant. That's what they called Chris Taylor when he wrestled at Iowa State, and it is a most fitting epitaph. Seldom will two words sum up a man any better than that. One tells you about his character, the type of friendly person he was, and the other describes his enormous physical size.

By the time he enrolled at Iowa State in 1971 to become a two-time national champion, he weighed 415 pounds. Chris Taylor was undefeated during his career at Iowa State University, in 89 matches. He was just able to wrestle two years in college, the last coming in 1973.

Depending on the time of day, before or after practice, before dinner or after a few beers, his weight fluctuated between 410 and 450 pounds.

"I think he might have been the greatest athlete for his size who ever lived," said his former Cyclone coach, Harold Nichols.

Taylor never lost a match in two seasons at Iowa State, pinning almost everyone he faced while winning two Big Eight Conference championships and two NCAA finals without surrendering a point.

He died at the age of 29 in 1979.

Although by nature he was not one to seek attention or controversy, his physique made him both a curiosity for the fans and often an object of scorn by teams and opponents who couldn't beat him.

To many, Taylor won simply because he was so huge. Few were willing to give him credit for also being a good athlete.

In what was the biggest disappointment of his career, Taylor lost a 1972 Olympic match to eight-time world champion Aleksandr Medved of the Soviet Union, 3-2, on a controversial stalling call.

The referee later said he felt Chris had an unfair size advantage, so he wanted to even things for Medved. It was faulty reasoning, and the referee was not allowed to work any other matches, but the damage had been done.

Medved went on to win the gold medal and Taylor had to settle for the third-place bronze.

Taylor was a 380-pound football center and defensive tackle in high school, but early success in wrestling made him concentrate on that sport. He won 58 of 60 matches and two state titles at Dowagiac.

His career almost came to a sudden end when he broke the neck of an opponent while wrestling one season at Muskegon, Mich., Junior College. Chris decided he should quit the sport.

"The only thing that kept me going was the parents of the paralyzed wrestler," he said later at Iowa State. "They told me it wasn't my fault.

"If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be at Iowa State. I'd be one of the local boys around home working in the factory."

Taylor went 41-0 in dual meets and won the national junior-college heavyweight title at Muskegen and then rolled to an 87-0-1 record at Iowa State. He pinned 42 of 48 opponents as a senior, setting a Cyclone record.

"I'd go around before a meet and ask the guys if they were warmed up," Nichols recalled. "When I got to Chris, he'd wiggle his fingers and say, 'Yeah, I'm warmed up.' :D
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